XP OpenGL ATI drivers.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed Apr 10, 2002 9:29 pm

Simply put, my OpenGL doesn't work with XP. Can anyone help?

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Wed Apr 10, 2002 11:36 pm

I had the same problem with my Geforce 256. I've got an Asus V6600 card and the Asus drivers simply didn't work with OpenGL. The nVidia drivers do however.

I've just had a quick look at ATI's driver site, and they seem to indicate their XP drivers do include OpenGL support. What type of card have you got, and do you have the latest drivers?

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 7:28 am

I'm using ATI Radeon DDR 32 meg card. I've tried to download those drivers from ATI's site, but it always gives an severe error when it is about to install.

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 1:19 pm

What's the error?

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 1:43 pm

Well, when I run the game, it says it cannot open the OpenGL subsytems.

When I try to install new XP drivers, it says severe error, incompatible driver type.

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 1:57 pm

Are you trying to overwrite a previous ATI driver or doing a new install to upgrade from whatever windows installed for you?

If you can remove the original driver first, and try to find the .inf files that relate to it you may find that Windows stuffed up the hardware ID tag. If that's the case then the new derivers should install very easily.

As for why OpenGL doesn't work right now, ATI rushed the Radeon drivers through so they're kinda buggy. A lot of basic features were left out of the first release for XP.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 2:12 pm

Ok. thanks. that helped.